Press: Manipulation

Disinformation is the term that intelligence analysts give to
falsehoods a country disseminates by duping foreign news media. Such
campaigns usually depend on a legitimate journalist's unwitting
participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the
fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of
disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the
rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet
leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet
liberal.